# Introduction

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The &kmail; Team welcomes you to &kmail;, a user-friendly email client by &kde;. Our goal is to make &kmail; a program that is beautiful and intuitive without sacrificing power.

If you have never set up an email client on a &UNIX; system before, we suggest that you read through the Getting Started section first.

## Some &kmail; Features

Some links to the great features available in &kmail;

- You do not have to use your mouse to use &kmail;. Everything can be done by using Keyboard Shortcuts.

- Although &kmail; can be considered reliable you should keep backups of your messages, &ie; use one of the export/archive options listed in Backup Options to backup your settings and email to a safe place.

- &kmail; is capable of importing email in several formats from your previous email applications using options in Restore and Import in &kmail;.

- Organize your folders with ease using &kmail;s extensive Folders options. Some of the features include handling per folder: mailing lists, acl (&imap; only), and archiving.

- Compliment your folder setup with highly configurable filters.

- By default &kmail; will detect common email scams. You can also fight SPAM and viruses with built in wizards to work with external programs to scan email as it comes in. See Anti Spam Wizard and Anti-Virus-Wizard for details.

- Easily manage per-account settings using multiple identities.

We hope you will enjoy &kmail;!

### Getting Help

If you experience any problems migrating to &kmail; 2 please read the chapter Troubleshooting.

&kmail;'s homepage can be found at https://userbase.kde.org/KMail. There you will find useful links, ⪚ to the user and developer mailing lists. Please report bugs in &kmail; using Help Report Bug....